Compression and Archive

Command	Description
tar cf home.tar home	Creates a tar named home.tar containing home/
gzip file	Compresses file and renames it to file.gz
bzip2 -z file	Compresses file and renames it to file.bz2
tar xf file.tar	Extracts the files from file.tar
tar czf file.tar.gz files	Creates a tar with gzip compression
bzip2 -d file.bz2	Decompress the file